Added RPM generation capability to Cabal

Stefan O'Rear stefanor at cox.net
Tue Feb 20 19:41:48 EST 2007


On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 04:36:38PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> Duncan Coutts wrote:
> >Great stuff Bryan, I look forward to seeing the patches. Do darcs send
> >them to this list for review.
> 
> I'd be happy to, but my darcs repo contains about 50 patches that 
> resulted from many incremental checkpoints as I went.  I'm guessing that 
> you'd prefer to see something closer to three or four?
> 
> My darcs fu is not strong enough to know whether there's an easy way to 
> do this, so I may end up having to diff my branch with the main 
> repository and repatch.

As I recall, it is considered a major feature of darcs that patches retain
their identity on merging - if something breaks, you can unrecord only a
small piece, even after the merge.  Besides, remember that 50 patches is
50x the documentation :)


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